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PW: Then you returned to Woodfibre and that's also where your future husband, Bob, was also working, at Woodfibre.

SK: Yes.

PW: Tell me about your, your meetings with Bob and how you met him.

SK: Baseball ground, my sister, one of the sisters working in, what they call this men's working as kitchen, everybody, over two hundred boys was there, so he helped to cook. And that went to Sunday, I think it came from Vancouver, I don't know, it's Asahi, or I don't know. I can't remember. But Bob was there, too, I think he was writing the news to Tairiku. So my sister introduced me, so he speak Japanese, so, "Oh." [Laughs] And afterwards, my brother Nakano, he said, "If you're not doing anything, it's most, it's older people, but don't you want to come into see the waka or haiku, we're doing?" he said. So, "Okay," so one night went, so Bob was there, had to meet Bob. [Laughs]

PW: So that's how your relationship Bob grew?

SK: Yes. [Laughs]

PW: Now, also about the same time -- well, now, also about the same time -- well, of course, World War I started in 1941. Tell me what happened during the time, that time, and also your situation with the marriage talk.

SK: Marriage, yes.

PW: With Bob.

SK: My brother, my, not only the brother, sister, everybody was against marry to Bob, because Bob had four sister, and I'm not the strongest. Always I get sick. "How could you look after going to the Kadoguchi family? How could you look after those girls?" They're so young still, and the mother's not there. Mother was passed away long time ago, I think. So no, my brother said, "No," he's going against me. So the story was that end there, but my brother have to move to camp, and my sister and we would have to move to Greenwood. So he, they want to take me Greenwood, so I talked to Bob. [Laughs] "I have to go to Greenwood." "Okay, then," Bob said, let my brother, send the brother first and see, and still he was going, you know, my brother said, "You're not gonna marry Bob. You'll, you're gonna die, you're gonna kill yourself." This is what my brother said. [Laughs] So anyway, Greenwood, my sister, sister Na and the sisters going to Greenwood. I said, "I'm not going," so my sister said, "Why?" "Because I'm gonna marry the Bob." Well, they can't say anything afterwards. "Okay, you stay back there." And afterwards, "If a brother heard this, you gonna marry to Bob, he's gonna get mad. He's gonna disown you." [Laughs] Well, and we had a special permit and sisters, they all went to... I don't know, maybe Hastings Park, they have to stay there, and went to Greenwood. I don't know exactly, but they went. So I by myself, and Bob had a special permit to go to Vancouver, and we married. And that day we walked to the City Hall, we heard on the radio Tokyo was bombed. It was April the 15th, I remember.

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